QUALITY AND EQUALITY

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• QUALITY AND EQUALITY
• IN
• EDUCATION FOR ALL
• The need to work cooperatively is essential for
  our Childrens education

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• The Northern Aboriginal Education Circle consists
  of representatives from Treaty 3, Treaty 9,
  and the Robinson Superior Treaty area and First
  Nations organizations. (see attached list)
• Our goal is to raise Aboriginal Student
  achievement in First Nations and Provincial
  Schools.
• http//naec.7generations.org

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NORTHERN ONTARIO EDUCATION LEADERS

• Northern Ontario Education Leaders (NOEL)
  represents school boards and school authorities
  in the Northwestern Ontario Region.
• http//www.noelonline.ca/index.php

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NOEL NAEC NOASAC

• NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ABORIGINAL STUDENT
  ACHIEVEMENT COMMITTEE
• Where First Nations and provincial educators,
  parents and leaders work together to raise
  Aboriginal student achievement

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A local picturehttp//www.turtleisland.org/discus
sion/viewtopic.php?p3365

• Dr. Mary-Beth Minthorn-Biggs has just
  finished a comprehensive study that evaluated the
  academic performance and education needs of
  children in 22 First Nation communities in the
  Sioux Lookout district. Grade One - 88 were
  one or more grades delayed Grade Two - 66.9
  were two or more grades delayed Grade Three -
  74.7 were two or more grades delayed Grade Four
  - 88.1 were two or more grades delayed Grade
  Five - 91.3 were two or more grades delayed
  Grade Six - 97.15 were two or more grades
  delayed Grade Seven - 97.3 were two or more
  grades delayed
• Grade Eight - 93.2 were two or more grades
  delayed

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Combined dropout rates1999-2002 British
Columbia

• Even so, there is compelling, although
  incomplete, evidence that it is not just in
  British Columbia that Aboriginal students lag far
  behind their classmates.
• (The Fraser Institute,BC, 2004)
• http//www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp
  ?sNavpbid629

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BACKGROUND Memorandum of Understanding 1999

• We the undersigned, acknowledge that Aboriginal
  learners are not experiencing school success in
  British Columbia. We state our intention to work
  together within the mandates of our respective
  organizations to improve school success for
  Aboriginal learners in British Columbia."
• Memorandum signatories include
• the Chiefs Action Committee,
• the provincial Minister of Education,
• the federal Minister of Indian and Northern
  Affairs, and
• the President of the BC Teachers Federation
• http//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/agreements

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What is an Aboriginal Education Enhancement
Agreement?

• An EA is a working agreement between a school
  district, all local Aboriginal communities and
  the Ministry of Education.
• Fundamental to EAs is the requirement that school
  districts provide
• strong programs on the culture of local
  Aboriginal peoples on whose traditional
  territories the districts are located.
• Purpose
• Enhancement agreements are intended to
  continually improve the quality of education
  achieved by all Aboriginal students.
• http//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/agreements

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BC Memorandum of Agreements Chronological
http//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/agreements/agreemen
ts.htm

• 1999/06/28
• School District 73 Kamloops/Thompson
• First Nation Education Council
• 2000/06/09
• School District No. 72 Campbell River
• Cape Mudge Band, Campbell River Band, Homalco
  Band, Klahoose First Nation
• 2000/06/21
• School District No. 42 Maple Ridge
• Katzie people, Kwantlen people
• 2001/05/16
• School District 79 Cowichan Valley
• Cowichan, Penelakut, Halalt, Malahat, Chemainus,
  Lyackson, Lake Cowichan, and Metis Nation people
• 2001/08/01
• School District 68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith
• Snu ney muxw First Nation, Snaw-Naw-As First
  Nation, Chemainus First Nation
• 2001/10/04
• School District No. 71 Comox Valley
• Comox Indian Band, Wachiay Friendship Centre,
  North Island Metis Association, Upper Island
  Women of Native Ancestry, Comox Valley Aboriginal
  Head Start, North Island College

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BC Memorandum of Agreements Chronologicalcontinu
ed

• 2001/10/29
• School District No. 52 Prince Rupert
• Hartley Bay, Kitkatla, Lax,Kwalaams, Metlakatla,
  Tsimshian
• 2003/02/26
• School District 35 Langley
• Katzie, Kwantlen, Matsqui
• 2003/05/01
• School District No. 59 Peace River South
• Chetwynd, Moberly Lake, Dawson Creek, Tumbler
  Ridge
• 2003/11/18
• School District No. 28 Quesnel
• Esdilagh, Lhoosk'uz Dené, Lhtakot'en,
  Ndazkhot'en, the North Cariboo Métis Association,
  the Quesnel Tillicum Society
• 2004/04/01
• School District No. 69 Qualicum
• Qualicum, Nanoose
• 2004/06/15
• School District 91 Nechako Lakes
• First Nation Education Council

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Identification/Statistics/Data Collection

• To our knowledge, no other jurisdiction in Canada
  identifies Aboriginal students in a way that
  allows their academic results to be segregated
  for analysis.
• (The Fraser Institute,BC, 2004)
• Relevant performance data can only be gathered if
  students of Aboriginal ancestry are routinely
  identified.
• (The Fraser Institute,BC, 2004)
• http//www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmor
  e.asp?sNavpbid629

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Policy Document K-12 Funding-Aboriginal
Educationhttp//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/policy/policie
s/funding_abed.htm

• Targeted Aboriginal Education funding requires
  the collaboration of school boards and local
  Aboriginal communities to develop and deliver
  Aboriginal Education programs and services that
  integrate academic achievement and Aboriginal
  culture and/or language

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(BC) Operating Grants Manual (BC)March 12,
2004 http//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/k12funding/funding
/02-03/estimates/operating-grants-manual.pdf

• Page 2
• Supplement for Unique Student Needs
• Aboriginal Education A targeted grant that
  requires districts to spend this money on this
  program. This is to help focus funds to improve
  student achievement in this group.
• Page 9
• Table 3B- Other Unique Student Needs
• For each Aboriginal FTE Student (Targeted) 950

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BIGGER PICTURE

• Voluntary Aboriginal Identification
• Tracking
• Data/statistics
• Measurable results, not comparison
• Targeted Funding
• Enhancement Agreements
• Specific programming
• Improved educational achievement

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• The Northern Aboriginal Education Circle
• is respectfully asking for your
• support in this voluntary Aboriginal student
  self-identification initiative

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An Aboriginal Student Achievement Forum

• MAKING ABORIGINAL STUDENTS VISIBLE
• A voluntary Aboriginal self identification
  policy initiative
• Targeted Provincial funding
• First Nation specific programs and services
• OCTOBER 21st and 22nd, 2004
• TRAVELODGE HOTEL
• THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO